The Player Commodity by Saint
May 13th, 2007 9:32 AMHere is the list to determine the player commodity:
You all should calculate your worth, and join the commodity.
leave a comment telling it.
Add up all the things that apply to you, and that is your overall value, and your sale value. Then divide that number in half, and subtract the penalties that apply to you, whatever is left over is your resale/trade value.
-Male +20.00
-Female+25.00
-Age +15.00 per year
-Height +3.00 per inch
-Brown Hair +4.00
-Blond Hair +5.00 >(Rarity)
-Red Hair +6.00
-Green Eyes +4.00
-Brown Eyes +3.00
-Blue Eyes +5.00 >(Rarity)
-Hazel Eyes +4.00
-Other Colors +5.00
-20/20 Vision +10.00
-Needs glasses -5.00 Resale/Trade value
-Wears glasses/contacts -3.00 Rs/T v
-Has had corrective surgery +5.00
-Is blind, or can barely see -10 Rs/T v
-Is employed +20.00
-Is unemployed -5.00 off Rs/T v if under 18. if over 18, -10.00 off Rs/t v
-Knows how to cook +10.00
-Doesn't know how to cook - 5.00 Rs/T v
-Legally able to vote +10.00
-Smokes -20.00 Rs/T v
-Drugs -30.00 Rs/T v
-Drinks -10.00 Rs/T v
-Binge drinks -20.00 Rs/T v
-Totalled a car -15.00
-Killed someone -100.00 (exceptions being an officer of the law, and an active member of the service)
-Is in, or has gone through High School +15.00
-Diploma +10.00
-Is not in, or has not gone through High School -15.00 Rs/T v
-Plans on going to college +7.00
-Is currently in college +12.00
-Has gone through college +20.00
-Diploma +25.00
-Bachelors +30.00
-Masters +50.00
-School of higher education +60.00
-Dropped out of any education -20.00 Rs/T v
-Not educated at all - 30.00 Rs/T v
-In the Service +30.00
- Active +25.00
-Reserve +15.00
-Retired Veteran +20.00
-OTH D -40.00 Rs/T v
-Dishonorable Discharge - 50.00 Rs/T v
-Can Drive +15.00
-Owns a car +20.00
-Conserves Fuel (or at least tries) +10.00
-Rides a bike, or walks +20.00
-Doesn't -15.00 Rs/T v
-Has Siblings +10.00 per brother or sister
-Has Girlfriend/Boyfriend +15.00
-Cheats -10.00 Rs/T v
-Married + 25.00
-Has kids +15.00 per kid
-Cheats -30.00 Rs/T v
-Owns a house +50.00
-Condo +20.00
-Apartment +10.00
-Hotel +5.00
-Homeless -10.00 Rs/T v
-Generally Happy +5.00
-Sad -3.00 Rs/T v
-Angry -2.00 Rs/T v
-Nice +3.00
-Good with people +5.00
-Is Biome +10.00
-Is Humanitarian +7.00
-Is University +5.00
Is Bart +3.00
Is Equivalenz -3.00 Rs/T v
Saint (ME)
Overall Buying Value : $619.50
Rs/T Value: $294.75
Cerny
Overall Buying Value: $549.00
Rs/T Value: $249.50
The C
Overall Buying Value:
Rs/T Value:
Mr. T.
Overall Buying Value: $649.00
Rs/T Value: $319.50
(I will be updating as soon as I get all of these scores in on monday, don't bug me about it)
I scored out Myself and a few of my friends, but you all should join the commodity, post a comment telling your worth, and what not.
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Broken! 6 feet is worth $60 whereas 5'11" is worth $105.
Everybody, figure out your value, and Rs/T Value
I hope that there aren't anymore problems with it. Now everyone check it out, and enter your own worth.
Thanks,
Saint
OK, I seem to be $910, with a Rs/T value of $838.
However, I was a little confused about the education issue: I am in law school, and I am 2/3 done. Do I take the 50 for Masters? It only says Masters, and doesn't refer to all higher levels of education so I wasn't sure.
I'm 'spensive. $716. That's 4,320.03 Norwegian Kroner.
My resale value is only $325, though.
-Ben
Good you guys, thanks for participating.
To answer your Q R.Candy, I am only in high school, so I don't really know enough about college, and higher levels of ed. like med school to accurately score that part, sorry. But I would just say that if you almost have your masters then count it.
In that case...
I am worth $960, with a Rs/T value of $888. (Which is a totally rad value by the way!)
If I may suggest: Change the 'Masters' part to any fom of secondary degree, as that will take into account people in law school, med school, theology school (Burn Unit is that even how you say it??), and PHD programs, as well as include the international players, who have a whole different system of higher education degrees!
I'm rather under-valued, in my humble opinion, at $802 ($739 at a flea market). Ben, how'd you end up loosing so much value?
EDIT: D'oh! Never trust me to read instructions, I guess. My resale is actually $338, and my question is ridiculous.
Also: who's gonna step up and set up an exchange for us commodities? Any thoughts on exchange- and use-value in the field of player economics?
My value is 1084 (it's good to be old?) and Rs/T = 522 (It did say to divide the orginal value in half - yes? and then subtract?)
Sean thats an exellent idea, I think that a task like that should be made in the future to continue this.
Something cool sounding like "The Marketable Player"
I may have this created
And yes Cyber K. you did it correctly :)
This could have derivative value. You should look back into ImpEx (hey Sean, I found a better abbrev than IE!) and look at Risk. Think about it.
In any case, are educational things cumulative? LIke I have gone thru high school AND have a diploma, AND college AND more than enough credits for the masters (ugh thesis. can't count that yet I suppose?) and dropped out once and returned . Do I add those each? I suppose the drop out is my only negative Rs/Tv. Sweet. (*edit: oh. the drinking and the drugs. never mind.)
Without the masters yet, I am worth $1,087 ($483 aftermarket) Four figures!
I love this completion on account of it's completely ludicrous.
Also, how about better than 20/20 vision, eh? There's degrees of penalty for degrees of blindness after all...
Dammit! Why does my height and single-ness make me worth less than tall people who can go from relationship to relationship with no breather?
Yes, friends- Inky is short and single.
I'm 6' 4'' and have been forever single.
and yes Burn, they are accumulative, you may add them up.
and you would count the drop-out as well.
Overall value of 792 (consarndit! I really wanted to get to 800) and a Rs/T value of 350. I think if I had grown one more inch and gotten to 6 feet, not only would I have played in the NBA, but I also would have broken into the 800s.
[edit: forgot about the drugs]
Sir I protest at the lack of value placed upon a BART PA member!
Now that my protest has been duly noted, i would also like to note there is an exchange rate going on.
If i lived in the US i would be worth $668 and $309 resale.
However as i am a UK commodity i am on sale within the UK market, and as such, take on the price of the pound.
Using the price of the book "The Benefits of Price Convergence: Speculative Calculations (Policy Analyses in International Economics)" as a meter stick, gaining both price listings from amazon.com and co.uk. ($20 and £14.49) I am infact worth £483.97.
Therefore at the current exchange rate of 1.968 for GPB to USD I would be worth a cool $957.28
Of course ontop of this, in order to import me into San Francisco on the cheapest flight available right now ($746.68) I would be worth $1703.96
Though i believe using Saint's current commodity chart, i would depreciate in value by $20 for binge drinking in order to survive the long haul flight, (Also -$30 in resale for drugs as there is a stopover in amsterdam, and -$12 resale as the move to SF would mean id drop out of college.)
So all in all, my grand total would be $1683.95
We need to be able to vote on comments. Nice work, Mouse.
My overall value is $939.00 but forgot to do the Rs/T...oops!
HA, Sean, i totally agree with that statement! Mouse I think you have the most complex, and in-depth look at your own commodity, kudos for that. Definitely put a lot of thinking, as well as research into it.
As for Bart being worth so little, that would be because i set the commodity, and the values, and i felt that the other groups had a much closer goal to mine, that is why they were worth more. Equivalenz just got the shaft because they don't seem to respect the environment much.
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763
The money out here is worthless! They sell it at tables in the Bazaar. If I were to calculate my worth in the money of the area in which I am located, it would be 1435649.6 Iraqi Dinars... which can buy you two hambugers!
Doggone it math is HARD!!
OK: I am 960 with a resale value of 401.
Mouse: YOU RULE!
Inky: At least you're 15 points up as of last week!
After looking over everyones comments, i decided to add a little more, so check over it, and edit your scores to suit the update. Thanks, and i hope you all enjoyed this!
I think im not totally comfortable with the increase of value of a person who owns a car, especially coming from a Biome member!
but i do have it giving points for conserving fuel
I added rides a bike, or walks as an option, along with the car ones
I've devised a simple way to commodify one's vision, whether it be perfect or not quite. First, as in my case, you may have two different measures for two different eyes. I've got 20/13 vision in the right eye and approximately 20/45 in the left. This is due to a cataract, from birth.
Beneath zero (our 20/20 reference point), the equation y=tanh(x) or (2^x-2^-x)/(2^x+2^-x), being asymptotal, approximates 'worse vision' until 'it cain't get any worse.' Having -25 'points' off of 20/45, I'll use -25 as a value. For yrs truly, then this calculates out to a solid -5 commodity points for some measure of blindness.
On the other hand, above zero, we need a non-asymptotal equation, best described by the logarithmic curve in y=2x^(1/3). Having 20/13 vision, I can input a +7 value in my x, giving me 3.82586237, or rounded 3.83.
Now, adding 20 points for gender, (15x24.6yrs)=369 for age, (3x75")=225 for height, 4.5 for having blond hair (strawberry blond) at birth but no longer (it is brownish), 5.0 for bluest eyes, 10 and 10 for cooking and voting, though neither extremely well or consistently, 25 for fucking high school and 30 for my b.a., 15 for driving (i drive stick too, doesn't that count for something? and what about other classes of licenses?), 10 for driving biodiesel and hybrids frequently, but also 20 for having a bike, walking, and the BART and bus most often of all, 10 and 10 for siblings, one of each, 5 for happiness, 3 for general pleasantries i'm skilled at sharing, 5 for geniality, and 3 for the group.
That's 783.33.
Sale, well: 343.66.
Overall: $1048.00
Resale: $464.00
No money down, easy payments, low APR.
If you bought be new $938.00
My resale value is $446.00
We can work out a payment plan.
Or you can wait for the end of the year clearance sale when the new models come in, I'll be substantially marked down.
I scored 497$ ^-^ w00t!1